Learning and Education

Learning processes focusing on ethics, sustainability, equity, and well-being

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This section features stories of initiatives to create spaces and opportunities for learning and education that enable continued or renewed connection with the environment and nature, with one’s community, and with humanity as a whole. These are stories of efforts to nurture a fuller range of collective and individual potentials and relationships, stories of unlearning the alienating, individualizing ‘education’ that mainstream institutions have been giving, stories where the formal and the informal, the traditional and modern, the local and global, are synergized. Initiatives ensuring accountability of the state’s responsibility towards citizens in education would also be covered.

Learning & Education: Books, Reports & Newsletters

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Learning & Education: Visual & Audio

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Tara Books: The Worker-owned Co-operative Publisher

Tara books has always been a worker-owned cooperative of artists, writers, and designers. Young bookmaking artisans are trained here, and nurtured to develop a livelihood that not only supports their families but also preserves their tradition and culture.

Proud Collective of Maptivists!

Transparent Chennai aims to empower the citizens of Chennai, particularly the urban poor, by creating and providing relevant city data that highlights citizen needs and helps the city government make better city planning decisions.

A Glimpse of Barefoot College

A group of local village women attended the Barefoot College Parabolic Solar Cooker workshop, and then started a cooperative to cut, weld, build and use more of these themselves.

Bhaskar Save, the Gandhi of Natural Farming

Veteran farmer Bhaskar Save's organic farm yields more than any farm using chemicals, going by any criteria including total quantity, nutritional quality, taste, biological diversity, ecological sustainability, water conservation, energy efficiency, and economic profitability.

Communitisation of Education in Nagaland

Nagaland state's legal move to decentralise a part of the governance of education, health and power has had interesting results

Kanavu, Kerala : Where Learning Happens

An ethnography of an alternative school/commune, Kanavu in Wayanadu district of Kerala. It explores the diverse learning spaces and methodologies that have been incorporated into its system, where learning happens for children who participate. Kanavu is today facing several challenges as they have begun a new phase of handing the management over to the older students (now adults) who have graduated.

School in the Forest : Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary, Kerala

The Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary is dedicated to the plants of the Western Ghats, a mountain range running down the western coastline of peninsular India. Founded in 1981 by Wolfgang Theuerkauf, the Sanctuary is a garden of wild plant species grown at the edge of a rainforest reserve. The intention is to rehabilitate endangered species and restore habitats in a highly fragmented landscape, in which only a fraction of original forest remains and a high percentage of species are rare, vulnerable or threatened by imminent extinction. The Sanctuary is run by a small group of resident gardeners, naturalists and educators, and supported by a wide circle of well-wishers. Together it offers an approach that is connected to the climate, land, habitats, plants, animals and people of the Western Ghats.